Experimental Electronic Music
Alan Myson’s carved out his own corner, one where rhythm is secondary to texture, and where live instrumentation gets processed into something unrecognizable but still visceral. This is music that feels carved and three-dimensional, like the press notes say, but it’s also restless and uncomfortable in a way that keeps you engaged. It’s not an easy listen, but it’s a rewarding one.
Through every granular texture and skewed rhythm, Planet Mu reaffirms its place as one of electronic music’s most vital and visionary institutions.
After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Timeproof simply functions as a gloomy and spacious soundtrack to lost planets thanks to the static fizz-fuzz sounds and bewitching textures that Ital Tek carefully extracts from his machines.
While it feels like the composition is less architectural than on Outland, this freedom gives this new batch of tunes a sense of aeration, effortlessness, […]
Outland has the gravitas of its album cover—that of a hybrid between circuit board and stone tablet. Listening to it intently, one feels like an […]
Ital Tek (a.k.a. Alan Myson) returns to Planet Mu with his sixth album Outland, out 1st of May. Intuitive feelings and functions are a difficult […]
In a continuation of his approach to distance himself from a semblance of traditional dance music leanings, the advancement of his creative process finds him […]
